Quito owns the most valuable, extent and preserved urban heritage collection of South America.
Quito's old city occupies 400 hectares. Streets that go up and down in fanciful routes to accommodate its orthogonal trace to a varied topography. Neighborhoods with authentic colonial and republican flavors. Hundreds of buildings which keep cultural treasures, covers a huge diversity of styles and periods, since middle XVI century until the early decades of XX century.
Cúpulas de la Catedral
Quito exhibits the most amazing expression of religious art of South America.
City in which the depurated American baroque style developed and reached its splendor. Historically devote of the Catholic cult, owns near 30 churches, monasteries, and convents that keep an invaluable artistic heritage of delicate richness. Quito, testimony of the technical refinement that the “Escuela Quiteña Del Arte” (Quito´s Art School) reached and that is over 400 years old.
Quito opened the path.
The World´s Heritage list which increases every year, includes today 226 cities located in 78 different countries. Everything started in 1978 when Quito and Kracovia were the first cities in the world to be declared by UNESCO as World Heritage Site.
Calles del Centro de Quito
Turistas y niños en la plaza grande
Quito has regained its Cultural Heritage.
Quito took action to preserve its cultural heritage 40 years ago. Among other achievements, Quito is the only Latin-American heritage city that has solved the informal commerce issue without the use of coercion and force but through social inclusion. This has becme the paradigm of Latin American recovery and putting in value f public space.
Quito is the Latin-American city that invests the most in its cultural heritage.
Since 2001, Quito has invested over 220 million dollars. In this period about a thousand interventions of building and art works restoration, publications, academic activities and Quito’s heritage diffusion has been developed. In the last year such investment was US 60 million .
Convento
Aereopuerto Mariscal Sucre
Quito connects with the World.
Quito's airport is served with modern features, in which important airlines of America and Europe operate with connections to various destinations of those continents. A high technology telecommunication network allows the direct contact with any part of the world.
Quito, A great host.
The Ecuadorian capital has about 6000 seats in 5 star hotels, internationally recognized standards for its service and efficiency. Eating well is one of our passions. An excellent local gastronomy, famous in Latin-America, joins to an amazing variety of restaurants, offering the best cuisine from all five continents.
Restaurante
Auditorio Casa de la Música
Quito has suitable spaces.
In Quito, around 30 major international encounters are made every year. The city provides wide and comfortable spaces, designed to take both work groups and plenary sessions of hundreds of participants. Also, Quito counts with all the support services for conventions no matter how specialized they are.
On 2009, Quito commemorates 200 years of its first action towards independence.
A festive city that is open to offer the best of it. An opportunity to show how much we do every day to protect and preserve our heritage. An environment in which it is still possible to see almost unchanged, many of the places where historic events took place. It will be a splendid encounter with friends from all over the world.
Museo de Cera
Fiesta tradicional
¡Quito is living Heritage!
Quito's people lives intensely their traditions and daily express their unique and diverse culture. A mixture of customs whose origins are remote prehispanic practices with others, clearly rooted in Spain, the full force of Equinoctial culture, located just at the point where the world is divided into two hemispheres.
Quito owns the most valuable, extent and preserved urban heritage collection of South America.
